Cloud Gaming should be used for demos and such to get people interested... the upside there is that we don't have to download Gigabytes just to discover a game sucks. Should Sony stick with this kind of model rather than force us to go completely cloud-based, then it'll be a good thing. While many gamers may be tempted to "sell out" to the concept of cloud gaming that OnLive and others are pushing because of the convenience, you should go play Diablo 3 for a while and have that lovely experience of servers being down. Watching things like this weekends Netflix outage does not at all bode well for Cloud Gaming.
Fair question which merits discussion. First, sreaming Crysis... now pirating Office?
I hate to troll, but still think this company is trying to peddle technology that just isn't in demand, and when it is will be done by Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Sony.
There's simply one thing that turns me off from local TV news: That it's dominated by tales of assorted criminal doings, corruption, irrelevant stupid on-goings, or worthless weather forecasting. In one era it was perhaps useful; I don't see "local news" doing anything useful for years to come.
As we're talking about superstars here it's probably not going to affect them much either way. Self-starters generally know how to teach themselves anyway.
Would would be better is if there was a tight bond between the grant and the school they're dropping out of and, perhaps, instead of dropping out for a period of time the University in question could give them credit or grant a different form of degree.
Games like this tend to go gold/platinum merely because gamers (or more likely, their parents) "buy the game on spec" sheerly on the brand name. The game industry gets it and uses that to their advantage.
The trick is to discourage people from buying games like this so if you're a gamer and see someone who's making this decision and "just say no". Harder than it looks really...
I've recently had a great discussion with a representative from my Cable company about reducing my bill. Paraphrasing, cutting the TV part of my service actually ends up costing me MORE. Makes sense when you just want to keep bilking customers for crap. With Netflix, Hulu Plus, and other services there's no real need for hundreds of channels of garbage.
I guess HTC is convinced enough to blow $40M on this, but this obsession with "streaming games from the cloud" really doesn't seem to have made much traction. I have to think that it makes even less sense on a cell phone because of how much bandwidth would be used.
Good find. As always, being a Cold Fusion Physicist generally qualifies you as a crank scientist.
Not having a theory for how something works is cause for concern unless it was, of course, serendipity.
After watching OnLive struggle with gaining market acceptance, this is probably their best bet but people who want quality gaming experiences will stay away. They dropped the subscription fee probably out of sheer terror that they'd fail miserably. Now Android and TVs? Ultimately it looks to be headed to hotels to replace that crappy system you often find to entertain the kids.
Sadly, no matter what they do there's the TANSTAAFL principle. Someone has to pay for all that computing power in carrier hotels throughout the US, plus you have crackdowns on bandwidth at the end-user level. Give it a couple more years and we won't hear any more from OnLive.
Looking back at Perlman's other ventures, it seems that he hypes a technology in an area and then ultimately makes money elsewhere. WebTV, for example... that ended up getting picked up by other companies and was in one form turned into Moxi via Charter. Once this fails, it'll probably be picked up for a dime by some other company. No gamer is going to care if they have a patent... and honestly does anyone?
Read the forums and responses throughout the Internet and you'll find that gamers really have no use for OnLive. It is a novelty... a "gee whiz, I can play Crysis on a crappy laptop" kind of thing. In the United States we already have huge issues with broadband and the recent wins by various companies to throttle traffic is already hurting them. Why "stream" video of a game being played (by you, and elsewhere) when you offload all that onto your own machine?
They missed many targets and dropped prices already means that they're not reaching the market. "Cloud Gaming" is complete BS.
This kind of insanity is just plain stupid. Binaural beats have a documented psycho-dynamic effect... programs like Hemi-Sync are intriguing. I don't think people are going to get "high" off of them though. But what if they do? If binaural beats are made illegal and deemed "narcotic", then the "drug war" is more about denying people access to their own minds.
I've tried to get my head around this, but even if it works uniformly for everyone I'd have a really hard time seeing it be any more than a niche market.
Between GameStop for consoles, Steam for the PC (and now Mac), and increasing options for DLC, it's going to be a really hard-sell to gamers who are used to owning something physical that they can trade in (even for horrible rates).
I bet broadband will kill them. Net neutrality is going to fail, unfortunately, so people are going to get capped and have overage fees. Better to invest in a nice used XBOX 360 ($150 or less sometimes).
Sounds like the RIAA in the US all over again. People turn off their TVs to become more interactive (e.g. computer use) and all of a sudden the media corporations get all up in arms.
Let's face it, despite how much TV people actually watch, TV in its old form (the "idiot box") is evolving and soon there won't be much distinction between TV or a PC. We're already seeing this with TiVo and media centers.
How this all gets sussed out is yet another matter. I suppose the TV license approach is as valid as any and likely better than commercial TV here in the US. The truth is that ALL media producers are going to have to consider that online distribution is the future. TV shows will be downloaded on demand and "through the air" distribution will be tremendously different, probably more useful for real-time news rather than actual entertainment (although I don't see much difference these days.
I personally play a ton of video games still in my mid-thirties and support this wholeheartedly. The thing about video games, to me, is that they constantly challenge your mind.
I remember a gentlemene that was in his seventies telling me once that he kept mentally spry simply by reading, doing puzzles, and the like. He said that most adults are effectively senile early on because they quit reading and generally idle in front of TV. TV bores me; it doesn't challenge you to do much of anything except look, so I'd imagine that ANYONE who plays any kind of games requiring use of their brain would be a step up on people who don't.
Anyway... I play to be playing games until I can't see and hear them anymore. Hopefully in my old age we'll have decent VR and can simply "plug in";)
Working at a company that has provided an Non-Open Source package for Linux has been eye-opening and has pushed me away from Linux to some degree. I admire Linux, but it's really become an incredible time-sink because I have to spend hours on the internet searching for some arcane knowledge on how to fix basic (or not so basic) problems.
I want alternatives to Windows, but we need the serious distros to stand up and fight for an "expanded core" that doesn't comprise a constantly shifting codebase. Developers can't effectively write code for Linux because the subsequent support is a nightmare! Even RedHat's code changes too frequently for people to keep up.
I believe RedHat's on the right track, but the rest of the Linux world continues to evolve... something needs to direct the evolutionary process. Both Apple and Microsoft spend TONS of time on UI, which is the specific direction that Linux needs. Obscure the complexity, unify support for drivers, and support software that people use and you'll find Linux in everyone's home.
Honestly, I'm confused... I use Linux frequently and I'd have to say that the only thing I really am tired of is seeing ten million different distros.
I don't hate Microsoft, per se, mostly because when I want to play games or use standard Office-type stuff it's convenient. My company, however, has adopted Linux to develop its software on and it proves to be a constant headache because the "guts" of Linux change frequently and things break (even with Red Hat Enterprise).
I'd really like to see a de-Balkanization of the Linux universe to a large degree. I'm really tired of the RedHat/SuSE/Debian/ad infinitum battles. Is it really cool to make your own distro just because you don't like the way one developer does something?
Personally, I think that allowing kids to use calculators as much as we do is pathetic. There's a lot to be said for focus on mental technique.
Not long ago I was talking to my Grandma who expressed total disgust at a cashier who couldn't figure out that there'd been an addition mistake. Grandma could calculate the number in her head, but the cashier basically said, "The machine says...".
Calculators are a tool, not a crutch. If the students are doing too many calculations on a test so that they're necessary, I say revise the tests to allow time for mental or manual calculations and give them some scrap paper!
Honestly, I wish that there was more funding being put into getting off of the desktop altogether via visors, retinal painting technology, implant-based tech, or something else. Implants are likely quite a way off into future-tech, but for many of the things I do from day to day I'd rather ditch the screen altogether.
I think that the media industry has to recognize a threshold for song value. After a while, content needs to be relegated to the public domain. One day we'll have so much digital crap that the real value will be in paying someone to archive and help you search for what we want.
I agree that the music industry has no idea how much money they'll make with $0.05 downloads. I won't pay $0.99 when I can bittorrent something for less effort.
In my opinion, all these efforts do is keep "Joe User", the average guy with a computer from copying anything because he's too lazy to find a hack.
The bottom-line is that pandora's box is open. Hardware enables us, and unless the RIAA/MPAA bans all the CD/DVD burners, hard drives, and other equipment, there will always be another workaround and some smart person will make sure itgets distributed.
I think the only way around this is for the media industry to get realistic. People only have so much time to look/listen to digital media anyway so how much of what is downloaded is actually "consumed" anyway?
C'mon guys... some of you are too harsh. Let the technology come out and then we'll see what can be done.
Apart from traffic information and other data that could be collected, I have to think that making a "cop grid" via data feedback from radar and laser detectors, plus "panic button" cop detections. Of course, it won't be long lived as GPS is integrated into our cars and more systems go into place to start ticketing us automatically.
Dammit, where are my flying cars?! I want my flying cars!!!
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With NVIDIA entering this market, how relevant is OnLive?
Cloud Gaming should be used for demos and such to get people interested ... the upside there is that we don't have to download Gigabytes just to discover a game sucks. Should Sony stick with this kind of model rather than force us to go completely cloud-based, then it'll be a good thing. While many gamers may be tempted to "sell out" to the concept of cloud gaming that OnLive and others are pushing because of the convenience, you should go play Diablo 3 for a while and have that lovely experience of servers being down. Watching things like this weekends Netflix outage does not at all bode well for Cloud Gaming.
Oh, and you'll probably be able to play this on OnLive too ... but of course they're now probably too busy with cloud-based Windows Desktops.
Fair question which merits discussion. First, sreaming Crysis ... now pirating Office?
I hate to troll, but still think this company is trying to peddle technology that just isn't in demand, and when it is will be done by Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Sony.
There's simply one thing that turns me off from local TV news: That it's dominated by tales of assorted criminal doings, corruption, irrelevant stupid on-goings, or worthless weather forecasting. In one era it was perhaps useful; I don't see "local news" doing anything useful for years to come.
As we're talking about superstars here it's probably not going to affect them much either way. Self-starters generally know how to teach themselves anyway. Would would be better is if there was a tight bond between the grant and the school they're dropping out of and, perhaps, instead of dropping out for a period of time the University in question could give them credit or grant a different form of degree.
Games like this tend to go gold/platinum merely because gamers (or more likely, their parents) "buy the game on spec" sheerly on the brand name. The game industry gets it and uses that to their advantage. The trick is to discourage people from buying games like this so if you're a gamer and see someone who's making this decision and "just say no". Harder than it looks really ...
I've recently had a great discussion with a representative from my Cable company about reducing my bill. Paraphrasing, cutting the TV part of my service actually ends up costing me MORE. Makes sense when you just want to keep bilking customers for crap. With Netflix, Hulu Plus, and other services there's no real need for hundreds of channels of garbage.
I guess HTC is convinced enough to blow $40M on this, but this obsession with "streaming games from the cloud" really doesn't seem to have made much traction. I have to think that it makes even less sense on a cell phone because of how much bandwidth would be used.
just keep changing your business model!
Good find. As always, being a Cold Fusion Physicist generally qualifies you as a crank scientist. Not having a theory for how something works is cause for concern unless it was, of course, serendipity.
After watching OnLive struggle with gaining market acceptance, this is probably their best bet but people who want quality gaming experiences will stay away. They dropped the subscription fee probably out of sheer terror that they'd fail miserably. Now Android and TVs? Ultimately it looks to be headed to hotels to replace that crappy system you often find to entertain the kids. Sadly, no matter what they do there's the TANSTAAFL principle. Someone has to pay for all that computing power in carrier hotels throughout the US, plus you have crackdowns on bandwidth at the end-user level. Give it a couple more years and we won't hear any more from OnLive.
Looking back at Perlman's other ventures, it seems that he hypes a technology in an area and then ultimately makes money elsewhere. WebTV, for example ... that ended up getting picked up by other companies and was in one form turned into Moxi via Charter. Once this fails, it'll probably be picked up for a dime by some other company. No gamer is going to care if they have a patent ... and honestly does anyone?
Read the forums and responses throughout the Internet and you'll find that gamers really have no use for OnLive. It is a novelty ... a "gee whiz, I can play Crysis on a crappy laptop" kind of thing. In the United States we already have huge issues with broadband and the recent wins by various companies to throttle traffic is already hurting them. Why "stream" video of a game being played (by you, and elsewhere) when you offload all that onto your own machine?
They missed many targets and dropped prices already means that they're not reaching the market. "Cloud Gaming" is complete BS.
This kind of insanity is just plain stupid. Binaural beats have a documented psycho-dynamic effect ... programs like Hemi-Sync are intriguing. I don't think people are going to get "high" off of them though. But what if they do? If binaural beats are made illegal and deemed "narcotic", then the "drug war" is more about denying people access to their own minds.
I've tried to get my head around this, but even if it works uniformly for everyone I'd have a really hard time seeing it be any more than a niche market. Between GameStop for consoles, Steam for the PC (and now Mac), and increasing options for DLC, it's going to be a really hard-sell to gamers who are used to owning something physical that they can trade in (even for horrible rates). I bet broadband will kill them. Net neutrality is going to fail, unfortunately, so people are going to get capped and have overage fees. Better to invest in a nice used XBOX 360 ($150 or less sometimes).
Sounds like the RIAA in the US all over again. People turn off their TVs to become more interactive (e.g. computer use) and all of a sudden the media corporations get all up in arms.
Let's face it, despite how much TV people actually watch, TV in its old form (the "idiot box") is evolving and soon there won't be much distinction between TV or a PC. We're already seeing this with TiVo and media centers.
How this all gets sussed out is yet another matter. I suppose the TV license approach is as valid as any and likely better than commercial TV here in the US. The truth is that ALL media producers are going to have to consider that online distribution is the future. TV shows will be downloaded on demand and "through the air" distribution will be tremendously different, probably more useful for real-time news rather than actual entertainment (although I don't see much difference these days.
I personally play a ton of video games still in my mid-thirties and support this wholeheartedly. The thing about video games, to me, is that they constantly challenge your mind.
I remember a gentlemene that was in his seventies telling me once that he kept mentally spry simply by reading, doing puzzles, and the like. He said that most adults are effectively senile early on because they quit reading and generally idle in front of TV. TV bores me; it doesn't challenge you to do much of anything except look, so I'd imagine that ANYONE who plays any kind of games requiring use of their brain would be a step up on people who don't.
Anyway ... I play to be playing games until I can't see and hear them anymore. Hopefully in my old age we'll have decent VR and can simply "plug in" ;)
I want alternatives to Windows, but we need the serious distros to stand up and fight for an "expanded core" that doesn't comprise a constantly shifting codebase. Developers can't effectively write code for Linux because the subsequent support is a nightmare! Even RedHat's code changes too frequently for people to keep up.
I believe RedHat's on the right track, but the rest of the Linux world continues to evolve ... something needs to direct the evolutionary process. Both Apple and Microsoft spend TONS of time on UI, which is the specific direction that Linux needs. Obscure the complexity, unify support for drivers, and support software that people use and you'll find Linux in everyone's home.
I don't hate Microsoft, per se, mostly because when I want to play games or use standard Office-type stuff it's convenient. My company, however, has adopted Linux to develop its software on and it proves to be a constant headache because the "guts" of Linux change frequently and things break (even with Red Hat Enterprise).
I'd really like to see a de-Balkanization of the Linux universe to a large degree. I'm really tired of the RedHat/SuSE/Debian/ad infinitum battles. Is it really cool to make your own distro just because you don't like the way one developer does something?
Personally, I think that allowing kids to use calculators as much as we do is pathetic. There's a lot to be said for focus on mental technique.
Not long ago I was talking to my Grandma who expressed total disgust at a cashier who couldn't figure out that there'd been an addition mistake. Grandma could calculate the number in her head, but the cashier basically said, "The machine says ...".
Calculators are a tool, not a crutch. If the students are doing too many calculations on a test so that they're necessary, I say revise the tests to allow time for mental or manual calculations and give them some scrap paper!
Honestly, I wish that there was more funding being put into getting off of the desktop altogether via visors, retinal painting technology, implant-based tech, or something else. Implants are likely quite a way off into future-tech, but for many of the things I do from day to day I'd rather ditch the screen altogether.
Nice try ...
I agree that the music industry has no idea how much money they'll make with $0.05 downloads. I won't pay $0.99 when I can bittorrent something for less effort.
The bottom-line is that pandora's box is open. Hardware enables us, and unless the RIAA/MPAA bans all the CD/DVD burners, hard drives, and other equipment, there will always be another workaround and some smart person will make sure itgets distributed.
I think the only way around this is for the media industry to get realistic. People only have so much time to look/listen to digital media anyway so how much of what is downloaded is actually "consumed" anyway?
C'mon guys ... some of you are too harsh. Let the technology come out and then we'll see what can be done.
Apart from traffic information and other data that could be collected, I have to think that making a "cop grid" via data feedback from radar and laser detectors, plus "panic button" cop detections. Of course, it won't be long lived as GPS is integrated into our cars and more systems go into place to start ticketing us automatically.
Dammit, where are my flying cars?! I want my flying cars!!!